Cockroach Labs, the NYC enterprise database company, announced an $86.6 million Series D funding round today. The company was in no mood to talk valuations, but was happy to have a big chunk of money to help build on its recent success and ride out […]
Day: May 5, 2020
This Pandemic Is Lonely. But Don’t Call Loneliness an ‘Epidemic’
WIRED: You argue that prior to 1800, the Western world had this different conception of loneliness—more as solitude, and a positive emotion. Read all of our coronavirus coverage here. Alberti: There’s a definite shift in industrial societies, and what I did as a historian was […]
Blotter: Glencoe resident threatened with bitcoin demand
… to the resident's accounts and would send the video to all contacts unless the resident paid $2,000 in bitcoin. The resident suffered no financial loss. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
ROSENBAND | Trump Could Learn a Thing or Two from Bush
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/2020/05/05/rosenband-trump-could-learn-a-thing-or-two-from-bush/). COVID-19 Briefing · News.
Betting on calf price unknowns
“Until the country has a better handle on the pandemic, it's going to be very difficult to feel confident in a market bottom,” said Katelyn McCullock, …
Coronavirus in Lombardia, una giungla i test veloci a pagamento per scoprire se si è immuni
Una giungla. Nella quale mettere ordine è difficile, visto che esistono almeno 120 tipi di test, alcuni con marchio CE, altri in attesa di certificazione. Che possono essere fatti nei laboratori privati, nelle farmacie, persino negli studi dentistici. A pagamento — 40, 50, 60 euro […]
Omilia solleva $20M di uso colloquiale AI per il cliente supportAI & Dintorni
Omilia, una società con sede a Cipro, che ha costruito una conversazione AI per assistenza clienti, ha raccolto 20 milioni di dollari nel suo primo round di finanziamento, essendo stato avviato a partire dal 2002. Il backup viene da Grafton Capital e saranno utilizzati per […]
Zeitgold raises $29.2 million to automate bookkeeping
Zeitgold has raised a Series B round of $29.2 million (€27 million). Overall, the company has raised more than $54 million (€50 million). The company is building a software platform for small companies to automate bookkeeping as much as possible. Vintage Investment Partners is leading […]
Greece Wants to Reopen to Travelers by Late Summer
During this first phase, Greeks will also have the ability to exercise individually outdoors, gather in groups of up to 10 people, and travel freely within their … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
Apple MacBook Pro 13-Inch (2020): Price, Keyboard, Release Date
Apple has updated its 13-inch MacBook Pro workhorse with all the iterative tweaks and polishes you would expect from a surprise Monday morning laptop reveal. But the announcement’s ultimate significance lies less in what the new laptop adds than what it subtracts: Apple has finally […]